Trust the Moment
An invitation to live
When I dare to live, I will feel alive. I may wet my pants in the process, but I will also experience exhilarating joy. It all starts now. It all starts with becoming aware of what is actually around me and going on.
Chapters:
- 00:00:00 Intro
- 00:00:26 Trust the Moment – Solo
- 00:01:42 Rewards of being present
- 00:06:18 Trust the Moment – Remix
- 00:08:25:18 Outro
Transcript
Trust the Moment
You know it is going to pass
Everything does
So enjoy it while it lasts
And why do it half-arsed?
You might as well dive in head first
Like a child
Be playful with it
Have fun
Of course it might hurt
But both pain and joy teach you how to be alive
And how to live
So why not live a little more
Get a little wiser
And when you’re old an wrinkly
You will have a bucket load of stories to tell
And a few gems that might help others along their way
Trust the moment
All life is ever now
©️Laughing Brook/Peter Müller 2024
Intro
Having a past and a future is an essential aspect of being human. I look back at my story and those who have gone before, and it defines my identity, who I am. And from there I look into the future, I make plans and predictions and thus set the direction of where I want my live to go. And ever so often I get stuck there, mourning for the good o’le days or hoping for a glorious or fearing a frightful future.
In doing so, I’m missing the current moment, the Now.
And Now is a curious thing. One could say, Now is that tiny, passing, fleeting moment between the past and the future, this almost nothing of time which I constantly pass through. When I try to pin it down it’s already gone. It almost looks like a purely fictitious concept, a construct that isn’t real.
Yet, if on the other hand I manage to be present here and now, then – the more I allow myself to sink into this Now, the more it seems to expand. It’s a curious thing that mystics of all ages and backgrounds always describe the divine in terms of an eternal Now, a blissful moment in which everything is there and nothing is lacking.
There is a mystery about Now. It’s always there, and yet the doorway into the infinite Now seems so hard for us to find. The key to opening it is letting go – which includes both my attachments to my past and to a possible future . Letting go is a very simple thing that most of us find incredibly hard. The road that leads to it is build on trust, for without trust I won’t be able to let go.
It was Pablo Picasso who very famously once said: „I do not seek, I find.“ He then goes on to explain how this is only possible if I feel safe in insecurity – and this is the very attitude of trusting, which allows me to open myself for the unknown.
Thinking about it: If I don’t have a solution or redemption inside of me, where else could it possibly come from than from an unknown place, a place that I do not know yet? The only place to encounter the unknown, to encounter, really, anything, is in the Now.
Outro:
My name is Laughing Brook, I am a poet, dancer, mystic, nature coach and man whisperer.
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